Performing Catharsis: Enacting An Ancient Therapy

By: Meineck, Peter

What is catharsis and how exactly do pity (eleos) and fear (phobos) and other emotions achieve it? Rather than examining catharsis as described in Aristotle's Poetics, this book instead places it within the context of performance in ancient Greece from the Palaeolithic to the fourth century BCE.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032596694
• ISBN13: 9781032596693
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"